WW1 TOMMY 120MM WIP: BASE AND FACE FIRST COLORS

Looks like it will be an excellent tribute to your great grandfather.  Keep us posted on progress.

Regards,  Rick

rjkplasticmod

Looks like it will be an excellent tribute to your great grandfather.  Keep us posted on progress.

Regards,  Rick

I agree with Rick. It will make an excellent tribute.

Thank you both for the kind comments, I will document the entire piece.

Base in progress ,this will be the most elaborate of this years WIPS .Base is 3/4" medite w/2" foam glued on ,sculpted using the finger gouge method ,then sprayed w/stone spackle .Very interesting effect for mud-hell to come . Front sculpted for family name plate also to include  ;corrugated sheet ,dead soldiers ,duckboards , bwire , and various pieces from DParkins WW1 Firing Line accys.

krow113

 ;corrugated sheet ,dead soldiers ,duckboards , bwire , and various pieces from DParkins WW1 Firing Line accy

 

Ummmmmmm......i don't mean to be rude by questioning you, but where are you going to put all the above mentioned stuff?.....

Boomer...

Boomer Noo sweat man , I will fit it all in dont worry.If you look at pix of the First World War ,most of them are littered with bits and pieces of debris.They all have the mentioned items and more.Thanks for your question......................

Here some base details goin' in...................

Duckboard is scratched basswood. Corrugated sheet is brass .Mr.Parkins mailed my order today ,so I look forward to adding more details. I also am waiting for Verlindens 'All Quiet on the Western Front'  for the German details. I have already ; Verlinden 120 mm barbed wire , Skulls and Bones . I have been sculpting the foam on the fly ,spraying the spackle in to the new areas and splattering it on the details ,numerous washes and oils with a final soaking wet gloss coat to come. Accy's and detail to be weathered/muddied in situ.

  Your base is larger than i first thought..... When i looked at the pic in which you have the spray can it looked small. Now that you add some corrugated iron and timber boards it has a sense of scale.

  Looking great!

Justin...

Justin: the base is 6"x 6" just waitin' for my Firing Line order to get back on this one........

Got all the components for this figure build:

Jaguar kit , Verlinden kit ,David Parkins Firing Line rifle and accy kits(excellent details there) ,

base and details as shown previously.

Stuff to be placed in the groundwork.........

And....

And....

All that is missing is the Verlinden barbed wire.I will also have to make the curious stakes that hold the wire.You will see where I 'sculpted' the foam under the paint ,easy enuogh to gouge the foam and repaint ,this is ongoing as the details find there homes.

Replied to this for scrusher who sent me excellent pix of his SMLE Thanx Mate!

All in primer now. This one is goin' a bit slower ,kinda feeling my way through as far as placement of all this stuff. After this I can place a lot of the details and start werkin; them into the ground .I'll spend a little time today adding details from the right to the left.............

Base details goin 'on here ,Ill let the pix tell the story.....................

And for something other than resin ,here is some distressed basswood and brass wire fence posts.

Awesome!  I am loving the groundwork. To be honest with you at first I thought it was little excessive with those skeletons but I liked it now as it reminded me of all great WW2 comics I read when I was young.

Dpanzer -Thanks, comments welcome , I was a little on the careful side regarding the bones etc. Reading about these battles ,the conditions in the trenches , it would be impossible to accurattely depict the scene w/o remains. The skulls ,etc here are a little stark in white primer , they will be darkened  and sculpted with more mud ,they are by no means the reason or the focus of this piece . I got some knarly tree pieces today for some more detail.

Suitibly horrific so far 

I'll look forward to see how you get on with the figure painting.

Good luck with this

INDY : Thanks- please feel free to comment or add your input.

First colors applied ,very thin mix to retain details .Only a few colors but watching the base change from the beginning is gonna be one of the best parts of this wip.

A two headed Tommy !!!? Not even Krow 113 would try that!

The horror... the horror...

I found your other WIP at last - good tip with that name Steve!

The base is really strong. Shows how bad the people in the trenches had it. I'm going to watch this one too! Good luck and have a nice day

Pawel

Thanks Pawel!